Norway's DNO Increases Oil Exports from Northern Iraq

Sales from Iraqi Kurdistan Could Start Soon

LONDON—Norwegian oil company DNO International ASA said on Thursday that it has ramped up exports from northern Iraq to 100,000 barrels a day, encouraging hopes that controversial oil sales from Iraqi Kurdistan could soon start.

DNO's Tawke oil field sits at the center of a long-standing dispute between the semiautonomous government in Iraqi Kurdistan and Baghdad over who controls the region's oil sales. As a result, until now the...